i ran scan disk, and right before all this crap happened i had run an antivirus. what i meant by the title things are different is that like... the yops of thw windows where it sayz My Computer or Internet Explorer or whatever, they changed color, they were blue before now theyre gray.... and i did eventually get to run adaware and spybot, they didnt find anything out of the ordinary, my sound has also been completely disabled somehow.... if theres anything else i can put on here to help just tell me what and how